Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. ~Eric Ries
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And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
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We grow too soon old and too late smart. ~Dutch Proverb
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. ~Chinese Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave. ~Kool Moe Dee
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In our post 9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy. ~Mike Rogers
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ~Sigmund Freud
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing. ~Irish Proverb
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I believe babies are born as innovative personalities. But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning. ~Jay Wright Forrester
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I have never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade. ~George Carlin
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. ~Frank Dane
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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Children are poor men's riches. ~English Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian Proverb
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ~Edith Wharton
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